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Free Book Friday!

Congratulations to Diane Norris (@thisdianenorris)! You’ve won Saturday Night Live! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.comwith the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your book in the mail.

This week’s free book is G. Neri’s Knockout Games, a gripping, timely YA novel which Kirkus called “harsh and relentless, a tough but worthy read” in its starred review.

For Kalvin Barnes, the only thing that comes close to the rush of playing the knockout game is watching videos of the knockout game.

Kalvin’s crew always takes videos of their KOs, but Kalvin wants more—something better. He thinks if someone could really see the game for what it was, could appreciate it, could capture the essence of it—that would be a video for all time. The world would have to notice.

That’s where Erica comes in. She’s new in town. Awkward. Shy. White. But she’s got a good camera and a filmmaker’s eye. She could learn. Kalvin could open her eyes to the power he sees in the knockout game; he could make her see things his way. But first she’ll have to close her eyes to everything else.

For a while, Kalvin’s knockouts are strangers. For a while, Erica can ignore their suffering in the rush of creativity and Kalvin’s attention. Then comes the KO that forces her eyes open, that makes her see what’s really happening.

No one wins the knockout game.

Coretta Scott King Award honoree G. Neri captures the notorious and terrifying knockout game and its players in an unflinching novel that’s hard to read and impossible to put down.

If you’d like to win Knockout Games,please leave a comment on this post (including your name), or tweet this line:“Free Book Friday! RT to win KNOCKOUT GAMES from @LernerBooks.bit.ly/1OrSN“

We’ll announce the winner on Friday, August 1, so check the blog then to see if you’ve won!